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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
less than $25,000 a year, this program represents a transformational opportunity to earn a college degree and secure a job with a family-sustaining wage. What is sometimes underestimated is that not only are community colleges obvious... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual
experience. Such experience has served him well as he has introduced numerous pieces of legislation that have, among other things, repealed inheritance taxes (the so-called death tax), banned taxes on Internet commerce, and limited fraudulent View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
industry giants such as Brandon Tartikoff and Grant Tinker. There he began honing the skills that have since secured his own reputation as a television programmer extraordinaire. The key, Sagansky observes, is finding the right niche, "a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
Wasserstein will neither discuss the down times nor revel in past triumphs. "I don't look back as much as I look forward," he says circumspectly. Meanwhile, Wasserstein Perella has prospered in the mid-1990s, having branched into areas such as View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
savings bonds, the government sends out as much as $2.5 billion less in cash and raises the same amount in new securities held by patient domestic investors. The Treasury should also loosen limits on savings-bond purchases by individuals... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
an early advisor. “We are still made in America,” Newnam says. “That’s more important to me than any cash-out situation.” Launched with the goal of catalyzing change in Sri Lanka’s capital markets, York Street Partners, an NVC winner in 2014 (Most Innovative and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Unsung Hero
On September 11, 2001, Celina Realuyo (MBA 2000), a private banker at Goldman Sachs in London, watched in horror on her office TV as the attacks in New York City and Washington unfolded. A former U.S. Foreign Service officer who had worked at U.S. embassies in Spain... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
have 50 Rupees (75 cents in today’s US dollars, about $1 at the time) for her monthly rent. Following her I Create training, and with 500 Rupees in capital in her pocket, Parmar started a small security agency in Vadodara that today... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
angels asked to change some conditions in a radical way one day prior to the closing. This put us in a delicate cash position, yet we refused to renegotiate, and the deal collapsed. In the end, we were lucky enough to be oversubscribed and could still View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
capriciousness of markets lately, we have also as a class had a full dose of the capriciousness of corporate power, in the form of mergers, acquisitions, reengineerings, and downsizings. (Indeed, we probably fostered some of the caprice.) This lack of job View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
magazine added that “the U.S. just might be the world’s biggest washing machine for dirty money.” Baker concurs, noting that the U.S. Treasury Department asserts that virtually 100 percent of dirty money presented for deposit in the United States is accepted into View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
the waste management industry in Lebanon was rife with corruption. Securing municipal contracts required the payment of bribes, something Abi Chaker refused to do. “We took a firm decision that under no circumstances would we engage in... View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
all over India, as well as other hard-hit countries in Asia. —Anuj Maheswari (MBA 2006), managing director of Investment, Temasek. Maheswari and a group of volunteers leveraged the company’s networks to secure and deploy thousands of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
is an exclusively Canadian service that helps savvy consumers save money on gift cards and provides a secure environment to exchange unwanted gift cards into cash. Superdome offers the first Building Integrated Photovoltaics worldwide to... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
to interact with financial markets, even indirectly.” It’s still too early to evaluate KBRA’s results, although in 2011 the firm came in third place in the first market where it chose to compete (commercial-backed securities with a single... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
opting instead for HBS and an executive career. Ten years later, he again aborted plans to attend medical school when his wife's health suddenly deteriorated, leaving him with primary responsibility for raising his young son and daughter. "Their needs and View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
$18 billion per year. And because Wal-Mart forces its competitors to charge lower prices as well, this figure is a fraction of the company’s real impact. These kinds of savings to customers far exceed the costs that Wal-Mart allegedly imposes on society by View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
Street responded by creating commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), which are similar to, but more complex than, the mortgage-backed securities long used to bundle and sell packages of residential... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
is an important sector in which to invest.” FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path Addressing The Financial Security Gap An Rx for Small Business Recovery View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
the average American hospital loses $80 million a year in neglected patient referrals and other processing inefficiencies. The solution, Jarzabek says, is Trustedoctor’s “E-Link”, a secure online platform which streamlines communication... View Details
Keywords: April White